Bundle of Fall and Winter Holiday Activities and Lesson Plans

These fun and engaging Holiday activities for middle and high school will have your students practicing growth mindset, creative writing, imagery, poetry and more! Including activities for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Black History Month, and Valentines Day, this bundle is just what you need to keep your students engaged during the holidays!

There are 14 products included:

1. Halloween Party Menu using Imagery
2. Halloween Fairy Tale to Scary Tale
3. Halloween Black Out Poem using Fairy Tales
4. Thanksgiving One Pager
5. Thanksgiving Party Menu Using Imagery
6. Thanksgiving Thankful Paper Tent/Digital Card
7. Christmas Party Menu Using Imagery
8. New Years Resolution One Pager
9. Valentine's Day Paper Tent
10. Black History Month Research Project
11. 150+ Black History Month Research Topics
12. Women's History Month Fact Card
13. Black History Month Fact Card
14. Holiday Acrostic Poem
 
Print and digital versions available!

- PDF
- Google™ Slides
 

HALLOWEEN PARTY MENU USING IMAGERY

A fun and engaging figurative language practice activity where students learn about imagery and the five senses by creating a Halloween themed party menu! There are figurative language worksheets included for students to:

- Learn how to define imagery and identify the five senses.
- Practice identifying examples of imagery by analyzing the menu of their favorite restaurant!
- Put a Halloween spin on the food descriptions they find in the menu of their favorite restaurant (For example, vanilla ice cream becomes vanilla mice cream!)
- Create their own halloween party food menu describing their favorite foods... with a scary twist!
 

HALLOWEEN FAIRY TALE TO SCARY TALE!

This creative writing high school resource tasks students with putting a Halloween spin on a fairy tale by making it into a scary story!

Students will:

- Learn about common characteristics typically found in fairy tales focusing on setting, character types, plot and elements.
- Choose a fairy tale and analyze it by identifying examples of the common characteristics.
- Put a scary spin on the common characteristics they find and use that to transform the fairy tale into a scary tale! (i.e Their "scary tale" still has to have fairly tale characteristics, but with a Halloween twist!)
 

HALLOWEEN BLACKOUT POEM USING FAIRY TALES

This creative holiday writing activity tasks students with creating a scary black out poem based on the common characteristics and theme of the fairy tale they analyze!

Students will:

- Learn about common characteristics typically found in fairy tales focusing on setting, character types, plot and elements.
- Choose a fairy tale and analyze it by identifying examples of the common characteristics.
- Use the analysis to help Identify the theme of the fairy tale.
- Create a scary black out poem based on the theme of the fairy tale they analyzed!
 

THANKSGIVING MENU USING IMAGERY

Students will learn about imagery and the five senses by analyzing the food descriptions from the menus of their favorite restaurant! They will then use this analysis to help them create their own Thanksgiving menu using imagery (descriptive language) to describe their favorite Thanksgiving foods!

Students will:

- Learn how to define imagery and identify the five senses.
- Practice identifying examples of imagery by analyzing the menu from their favorite restaurant!
- Create their own Thanksgiving party menu describing their favorite foods using imagery!

 THANKSGIVING ONE PAGER

Fun and engaging holiday activity for students showcase what they are thankful for in a creative and imaginative way! Instead of showing their understanding through writing, a one pager gives students the opportunity to express themselves through images, personal statements, quotes, short passages and more!

Students will:

- Identify different things they are thankful for
- Identify examples of conflicts in the novel.
- Explain how the conflict is impacting the relationship between specific characters.
 

THANKSGIVING PAPER TENT/DIGITAL CARD

This fun and engaging activity gives students a chance to uniquely express what and who they are thankful for in their lives via a paper tent!

 But what is paper tent?! Have you ever had your students create name tents during the beginning of the school year? Well imagine them doing the same thing except they use the tent to visualize things they appreciate the most in their lives!
 

CHRISTMAS MENU USING IMAGERY

Need a fun and engaging Christmas activity for middle or high school? Have your students practice imagery and the five senses by analyzing the descriptive words in menus from their favorite restaurant! Students will then create their own Christmas menu using imagery to describe their favorite Christmas food, beverages or desserts!

Students will:

- Learn how to define imagery and identify the five senses.
- Practice identifying examples of imagery by analyzing the menu from their favorite restaurant!
- Create their own Christmas party menu describing their favorite foods using imagery!

NEW YEARS RESOLTION ONE PAGER

Fun and engaging one pager new year goal activity! A one pager activity allows students to create a single page creative and imaginative response to a text, prompt, concept, etc. Have your students set growth mindset goals as a New Years Resolution and showcase them via an engaging and creative one pager!

Students will:

- Learn the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset
- The importance of having a growth mindset.
- Create three growth mindset goals for the new year!
 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROJECT

This fun and engaging print and digital Black History Month research project tasks students to work collaboratively or individually to learn about historical events related to African-American History! Included are two versions: PDF and Google Slides.

 The following are the research topics included in this resource!

- Jim Crow Laws
- The Freedom Riders
- NAACP, SNCC, SCLC, CORE
- The March on Washington, 1963
- The Selma to Montgomery Marches
- Loving vs Virginia, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown vs. Board of Education

 BLACK HISTORY FACT CARD

This fun and engaging print and digital Black History Month activity helps students showcase their knowledge about an important person, event, era or movement related to African-American History! Students choose their own research topic and have the option of creating a paper tent (print version) or a fact "card" (digital version).
 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH RESEARCH TOPICS

 Check out this list of over 150+ Black History Month research topics focusing on articles, historical figures, movements, people and more! Suggested Black History Month activities included!

Also included:

- Links to 32 articles
- 143 Historical figures, movements, organizations, and people that contributed to African- American history!

VALENTINES DAY PAPER TENT/DIGITAL CARD

Awesome Valentines Day activity for students to create a beautiful and touching memento for a person they are most thankful for!

Students are able to do this in a fun and engaging way - a paper tent! Have you ever had your students create name tents during the beginning of the school year? Well imagine them doing the same thing here, except students choose a person in their life they are most thankful for, and show why!

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH 

This fun and engaging print and digital Women's History Month activity helps students showcase their knowledge about an important person, event, era or movement related to Women's History! Students choose their own research topic and have the option of creating a paper tent (print version) or a fact "card" (digital version).

HOLIDAY ACROSTIC POEM

Get your students in the holiday spirit with this holiday acrostic poem activity! This template can be adapted to any holiday and includes an information sheet, worksheet and rubric!

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